I have only ever used pokefarmer in terms of cheats. Two of three accounts were banned because i let them run from my home computer all day up to level 28. My main account is not banned and when I bot, i use my work laptop and connect it via wifi to my mobile hotspot. The same movile phone i use to play legitimately with. Does Niantic detect my mobile through pokefarmer and think I am legit?
Interesting theory. Do you use Pokefarmer exactly the same on your main account as you did on the other two?
My legit account level 25 what i had before pokefarmer has trouble connecting to the server, if you read poodle corp claims that they ddos'd niantic multiple times accounts online at the time may have had there data scrambled shit takes time to back up especially when they have 100 million downloads so potentially 100 million accounts to back up and restore I would fully agree with anyone claiming this is a ban wave if my legit account wasnt also having the same problem as 50% of my bot ones, just odd that only 2 of my botted accounts are having the problem, maybe its because i only have 2 keys and during the time of the attack i only had 2 accounts running as well as my legit account when i was out late thursday taking gyms
I to am under the assumption that IP data is been scrubbed for ban reports, wifi/tethering from mobile for my main account that I played legit up to lvl 25 and now started botting and no issues as of the last three levels. Should also say I have three farm locations that hundreds of people go to on a daily basis in my town and I only sit there for a few hours a day each spot.
Everything the same except i would tweak recycling settings since i have a bigger bag on my main. KM speed, transferring etc was all the same.